Allow me to summarize a few choice bits from McGovern's
incomprehensibly convoluted ranting. You may not have the patience to
finish through his tirade:

Productivity doesn't matter any more (8), but even if it did,
there's no way Ruby could deliver more of it because sales people have
used the word productivity to lie to me in the past (11).

Whatever we're doing now is already the right thing (2) until the
big consulting firms tell us that something else is the right thing
(3). And they're not going to tell us about Ruby because they can't
make money off it (7).

None of my fellow Enterprise Architects talk about Ruby (5) because
they're too busy to think about their business to worry about new
technology (4).

All magazines that write about Ruby are bad (4) and all books
written about Ruby are bad (1). If other people say they're good, it's
because they were paid to say that (12).

The funny thing about a lot of the people who claim to be
'Enterprise Architects' is that I've come to realize that they tend to
seek complex solutions to relatively simple problems. How else do you
explain the fact that web sites that serve millions of people a day and
do billions of dollars in business a year like Amazon and Yahoo
are using scripting languages like PHP and approaches based on REST to
solve the problem of building distributed applications while you see
these 'enterprise architect' telling us that you need complex WS-*
technologies and expensive toolkits to build distributed applications
for your business which has less issues to deal with than the Amazons
and Yahoos of this world?

I was chatting with Dion Hinchcliffe at the Microsoft SPARK workshop this weekend and I asked him who the audience was for his blog on Web 2.0.
He mentioned that he gets thousands of readers who are enterprise
developers working for government agencies and businesses who see all
the success that Web companies are having with simple technologies like
RSS and RESTful web services while they have difficulty implementing
SOAs in their enterprises for a smaller audience than these web sites.
The lesson here is that all this complexity being pushed by so-called
enterprise architects, software vendors and big 5 consulting companies
is bullshit. If you are building distributed applications for
your business, you really need to ask yourself what is so complex about
the problems that you have to solve that makes it require more complex
solutions than those that are working on a global scale on the World
Wide Web today.

NOTE: This post isn't pro-Ruby or not since I have NOT used the language or any of its platforms.